TRAINING PROGRAMME

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DEFINITIONS

PANTHEATRE ACTS is a professional training context for actors, singers, dancers and performance artists. A context also for personal or professional development through the performing arts. It specializes in voice performance, choreographic theatre and cultural studies, especially those linked with mythology and archetypal psychology.

It is based in PARIS, with a residential programme and a festival at Château de Malérargues (Roy Hart International Centre - Southern France.) PANTHEATRE also has yearly programmes in New York, Bilbao and Milan, plus special projects like Haiti 2008 or London 2009.

 

Voice Performance   |   Choreographic Theatre

Voice performance training involves a dynamic blend of technical finesse and expressive risk. It also seeks the affirmation of personal genius - character and musicality - and a commitment to the relevance of what one has to voice, be it in speech, song, scream, silence, image or movement - or their synthesis in choreographic theatre.

 

The directors of PANTHEATRE ACTS were part of the original ROY HART THEATRE (1969-1989), and are owner-members of the Roy Hart Centre ( Château de Malérargues , Southern France ).

PANTHEATRE ACTS is an officially approved further education programme in France , especially by AFDAS (French Equity / Actor's continued training programme.)

 

PLANNING

PANTHEATRE ACTS is organized around intensive workshop periods and personnal training periods. Workshops have set programmes - consult their PDF full presentations (links below)

Paris Season
October to March
Paris Professional Workshop
October to mid-November
6 to 7 weeks intensive
PANTHEATRE ACTS personal training programmes : mid-November to March
Flexible programmes adapted to each participant.

Paris Voice & Music Performance Workshop
March
2 to 3 weeks intensive
Malérargues Season
Roy Hart Centre
June / July
Residential projects : performance rehearsals, directorial training and/or teachers training. June
Myth and Theatre Festival / first fortnight of July
International
Yearly Programmes and Projects

New York, Bilbao, Milan

Also see INTERNATIONAL workshops

 

TRAINING CONTENTS
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Voice work, includes the Roy Hart approach to extended ranges, timbres and textures and an understanding of physiology of the voice.
Singing
 Interpretation and improvisation, from bel canto to hell canto, with a basic musical training for beginners.
Body
 Body awareness, dance and performer's presence.
Actor
 Emotion, texts and disassociation techniques.
Ensemble work integrating movement, language and voice. Improvisations and performances.
Image, criticism and mythology.
Personal development

or a combination of all the above.

 

During non-workshop periods, the practical work is done in a series of weekly atelier classes and voice lessons (individual or small groups from 2 to 7 persons), and in weekend workshops. There is also the possibility of residential programmes at the Roy Hart Centre.

The practical work is complemented by regular assessment talks, study meetings, mythology talks and public performances (concerts, improvisations, work in progress.)

The directors consider that a comprehensive training in their approach to voice performance and choreographic theatre, and its implications (personal and/or performative) takes at least 2 years of regular work. This is obviously a general norm that they are willing to adapt.

The first year programme is a general introduction to the work leading to a second year with more specialized choices and the realization of projects (performance and studies.)

Partial programmes (from 3 months to 1 year) can be arranged for professional or travelling reasons. This can also be done in coordination with other teachers members of the Roy Hart Centre.